There is noting sacred about the so-called “declaration of human rights”, or allow me to put it this way, I hope not. Calling it “human” would be followed immediately with the idea that it is against the sacred past; the past that was magical and godly and metaphysical, and sacred.
Humanism, risen on the ruins of the gods, was flourished with the idea that pursuit of knowledge and ethics can originate not from the god, whereas “the god was already dead”, but from reason based on facts, more importantly and more precisely, our current understanding of the facts.
Human understanding could be diverse and and potentially subjective despite the ever struggle to avoid and evade such errors of the latter; whereas the former, i.e. the diversity is helping him or her to see the many aspects of facts.
Sacred is one but human is many; the sacred, if you will, could be the many a human.
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